We had a day out at Scarborough last year. We took the park and ride into the town centre, the locals seemed friendly enough. Actually to be honest it wasn''t all that bad. We shopped in the mall had lunch, did a bit of shopping and walked along the sea front and took notice of lots of smaller businesses doing reasonably decent trade. We were pleasantly surprised and would go back again.
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I was born in 1965 so these sort of scenes are my earliest memories. I wish that decade never ended. Just look how calm and clean it looks. Look how slim the people are. No one is glued to their mobile phone like a zombie, no one is covered in Frankenstein tattoos, cars aren't clogging up the pavements. Ok I know there were bad things happening in the world and improvements have been made in health & safety and medicine etc but in terms of social comfort and environment the 1960s in England were far superior to the toxic country we live in now.
Yes. In the late 1960s when 'folk' made good old 'home movies' like these on old-fashioned cine cameras; but they still pointed their rolling cameras at scenes of interest - or 'spliced' the results to cut out anything wrong or undesirable. Like pollution on beaches washed ashore from the industrial heartlands further north along the coast; or oil discharged from vessels at sea - illegally; or raw sewage and detritus from 'storm sewers' dumping waste into the sea; overweight individuals with crown and anchor tattoos gorging on candyfloss and hot dogs - drinking 'Tizer' - or 'Doctor Pepper' - before wobbling off to 'spend a penny' in the nearest amusement arcade blaring out music - and shouting obscenities at their squawking kids. 1969 or 2024 ? You might as well toss the penny and Bingo ! - see which side is better !
Yes. We can all 'wallow' in nostalgia - just as one did 'back then' on lovely, pure white beaches totally free of pollutants washed ashore from the grey North Sea and the industrial heartlands of the Tees, the Tyne and the Humber in close proximity; and, of course, listening to promenade-strollers and deckchair-users telling us all how much better things were - in the days before the war - back then in the 'good old' 1930s !
@@user-wp8vy8le3y yes we can all do that but having lived in the 60s I can compare them to today. Neither are perfect but in my opinion England was a much nicer place to live back then. If that upsets you then I'm afraid you'll have to find a way to deal with it.
My childhood too. No central heating, black and white tv with 3 channels, everything shut on Sunday, women paid less than men for the same job, childhood cancers which are now 90% curable then 100% fatal, sexism rife, homosexuality illegal, and worst of all the food was DIRE! I will stick with 2024 ta.
@@gerardmackay8909And everything wasn't so "woke", as to what they are now. Naaaa, give me the 1960s and 70s anytime. No such thing as zombie knives, video games back then. Children used to go out of the house all day playing kids games or riding their bikes without the fear of getting shot or stabbed.
@@nigelbevan8449 wasn’t so hot being a child playing out in 1960s Manchester if you happened to cross the path of that delightful couple, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. On top of that child murders from the 60s onwards has been a steady figure (real term drop given the increased population). Now as then 95% of murdered children are killed by someone well known to them.
@@gerardmackay8909As they are today, relating to child murders or sexual abuse. And relating to the food back then, you had to cook it back then in an oven, unlike today's garbage where, all you have to do is bung it in a microwave..... Mmmmm yummy yummy.
How fantastic. I was born in 1956 and remember these times so well. People think we have 'evolved' and the world is a better place! Not all change is for the better. When the UK and people had some standards, local authorities weren't bankrupt and there was pride in how places and people looked. Scarborough was our nearest place on the coast. I wish the world was still like this. Great post. Thank you.
This film is my childhood, born in 1948, day trips to Yorkshire's coastal towns, only A class roads, stop off half way for a brew. No casual clothing allowed, no jeans and females in Sunday best. Easy parking, and we even had a fold up picnic table and chairs and an early Camping Gaz stove to boil hot water for a proper brew to go with the picnic. Such simpler days, the memories of the family car from those times. Cheers DougT
I could weep thinking about the country our governments of all persuasions have helped to lose. I was born in 1964 and these scenes are familiar. Beautiful.
my mums last holliday in 1968 died soon after of cancer,i was only 6 but remember her in a wheel chair and wanting to see everything.i love scarboroough but fined it very upsetting when i see it in the old cinnys.thanks for posting chris.
lost one my sisters in a plane crash on the back off hoonymoon the same year as my mum died so it was a very bad time for my sisters and father.i went off the rails and into the bike and rock world i guess you could say it affected me.thank you for your nice post.@@Occident.
My mother's favourite holiday resort as a girl, she has passed now along with most of the people on here. These landmark features would have been so evocative to her.
Civic pride, well-manicured parks, corporation works departments, no outsourcing, proper counties, no parking charges, properly maintained roads, nice clothes, British cars ... Can I go back there please?
Yes. If you're a friend of William Hartnell or Jon Pertwee - and you own one of those 'lovely' dark blue telephone boxes with a flashing blue light on the top. And . . . people used to complain even then about the cr*ppy electronic music at the start - and that other 'Timelords' had pinched the kettle or the sink plunger to make the nasty 'alien' invaders look realistic - or that those interlopers from across the seas were scaring all the kids as they waded ashore. Some things never change !
This is how I remember things as a little kid . All British cars ,everything clean and tidy ,no litter , everyone smart . Just totally safe . No county line gangs , no stabbings every other day on the news . I’m afraid we have to look in the mirror tandoori ask ourselves why , why did we let it all be destroyed. We all voted for the destruction, we all continued to vote for the politicians who facilitated the destruction and unfortunately many seem intent on continuing to do so . God help us all indigenous British, from Britain / England of old to a multicultural shit hole in 50 years .
You were broke still from WWII [the last country to end food rationing in 1954] & you needed dirt cheap labour to make crappy cars, wipe bottoms in the new NHS, drive the buses & trains, repair roads, clear bomb sites etc. Your type [you were too young, but still your type] didn't care who was brought in from the colonies & Ireland - all your type knew was you were too good to do the labour. Now you are an old bugger & you're doing what you've always done i.e. blame everyone else. Quite pathetic - go down the Chinese takeaway in the MG Midget, if it's yours, & get yourself dim sum for a dim son.
Yes. And guess what - there's always been a history of so-called 'multiculturalism' in places in the North of England. In Yorkshire, too - places like Bradford - with its high proportion of workers employed in the mills and textile factories. And in Lancashire, too. Or consider the fact that Leeds, too, has long been associated with those of Jewish origin - and many of them have 'pure' white skins. Or even take into account the fact that England/ Britain/UK joined the EEC/EU in 1973 in order to replace those markets lost to the UK with the end of Imperialism in the 1950s and 1960s - under former British Prime Ministers - like Harold Macmillan. Lady Thatcher herself voted 'Yes' in the 1975 Referendum on continued membership of the EEC/EU so we had to cosy up to all those garlic and wine quaffing French and Italians - and the Germans, too, who also lost the War in 1945 - and the World Cup in 1966; shortly before this footage was filmed. I think we in the UK have long been xenophobic and suspicious of 'outsiders'- and it's also why a monkey was hanged on the beach in not-too-distant Hartlepool - in the days of sail - in the mistaken belief that it was a foreigner !
i lived above peasholm park at number 1 chatsworth gardens in 1960 and carried my pond yacht down the hill to climb over the fence down into the glen. brilliant. peasholm belonged to me in those days in the winter i was the only one there. 73 now and living in a country i dont recognise
we used to go on day trips to scarborough in the 60's and 70's many times as we lived in Leeds, all the family in the back of a transit, sat on dad's toolboxes or whatever we had, and i remember one day, must have been about 1968 my little bro disappeared when we were on the packed beach. when we couldnt find him my dad said someone would take him to the lost kids tent eventually, no panic from either mum or dad, and sure enough he turned up about half an hour or so later (if i remember rightly). different times and it ain't just nostalgia when looking back i can say everything was better. i spent my first 12 years of holidays just down the road at reighton gap nr filey, 7 of us in a tiny caravan, thanks for this vid, happy memories.
@@embers-cotswold-walks No the Mere is out of town in the A64. Its not for tourists now, its a just a bird sanctuary and a few benches. No ice creams or crazy golf.
Used to holiday in Whitby in the late 60's and early 70's. Arrived by coach at Scarborough and then caught the United bus over the moors to Whitby. Dad put the luggage in a left luggage facility and we used to spend a couple of hours in Scarborough inbetween.
Redolent of annual summer holidays throughout the 60's. The journey on the SUT coach from Sheffield, the halfway house stop at the Royal Oak near Howden, the "digs" at Fieldside, sailing a pond yacht in Peasholm Park, the afternoon naval battle on the boating lake, the night time illuminated tree walk on the island in the boating lake, playing on the North Bay beach making sand castles and sand pies, the open air swimming pool, the stroll along the front on South Bay past all the arcades each with their own Bingo caller, the ice cream with a blob of yellow sorbet on from Jaconelli's or Pacitto's, a Knickerbocker Glory or a Banana Split in the Harbour Bar, the "Jumping Jiminies" on the South Bay beach, the cliff lifts taking you from harbour level up to the town level, the one-arm bandits that you fed with one (old) penny, the feeling of horror when your parents decided to walk back from the South to North Bay by Marine Drive and Royal Albert Drive when you wanted to get on one of those cream and red centre entry single decker "Sea Front Service" buses terminating at the Corner Cafe - well, your legs weren't as long as Mum and Dad's. And all too soon it was Saturday lunchtime and you were back on the coach in the coach station, about to start the journey back to Sheffield - with the stop off en route at the Royal Oak of course. What I wouldn't give to be back there in the 60's again...
Born in 1951 , this is Scarborough of my childhood , Filey and Primrose Valley my holidays . Late 60s and early 70s was my Mod days , Scene 1 a great club on Aberdeen Walk , happy days
a lost world indeed,we went here every summer in the 70s, brings back memories of holidays with my mum and dad ,really great times , went on the water chute and the wee train to scalby mills that are in the video. also jimmy corrigans funfair . miss these days
Id guess this is around 1968? I first went to Scarborough in July 1970. Aged 10. With my parents and brother and Sister. Remember it well. I've must been another 20 times since i returned in 1995 with my own family. Now they take there children too. We love Scarborough.
I remember as a kid going to Scarborough for a short holiday with my mum and dad. Went to see Max Jaffa and his orchestra. That was about 1971 I think. Only lives 70 miles away but in those days there was no such thing as a package holiday (at least for us) so Scarborough was like the other side of the world....despite only living 70 miles away. I do think though that we do tend to look at the past with rosy specs though. Yes we have lost a lot of the good things, but shed a lot of bad stuff as well. Who remembers as a kid ice on the inside of your bedroom window (when we had winters). No central heating and the only way you got hot water when mum or dad spent half an hour getting a coal fire started and then opening the heater plate at the back of the fire place to heat the hot water for a wash in the sink in a freezing cold bathroom. Of subject a little I suppose but yes I wish I could go back in time for one day.
Thank you for bringing back memories of a happier and more settled time - one much more filled with placidity and optimism than ours. My family seaside trips were somewhat North of this - Saltburn, Redcar, Seaton Carew (very very occasionally Whitby) but much of a muchness. Sweets, candy floss, fish and chips and penny arcades - with the grown-ups indulging themselves with not a few pints and (for the ladies) port-and-lemons and Babychams.
Anyone who remembers this, is lucky,, we were blessed with the best of times, I'm 68 and this brings back so many happy memories,, the standards of today's society have taken a massive leap back since then,, ☹️,, I wouldn't want to be 10 years old now,, 😕
A quality traditional holiday back in the day, first went late sixties aged ten, we took the touring caravan , a new sprite major for the week, remember having a C16 Scalextric Ferrari P4 slot car, still got it. Thanks for the upload.
Safer? Hardly. If you were Black, Irish or LGBTQ+, for example, those were hardly safer times here in Britain. Women could be raped by their husbands. You really think it was better?
My son and his family live in East maitland near Newcastle. Australia is a beautiful country. The United Kingdom is unreconiseable now from the good old days. Ruined by multiculturalism.
@@albertatlock unfortunately, I have to agree with you. I lived in London from 1978 to 1981 and thoroughly enjoyed it. In October 2022 my wife and I visited London for a week, I found that the place had completely changed! And I don’t mean the buildings. I hope that the stupid politicians can sort out their mess. Have a good day.
@@albertatlockMy Son lives in Mayfield which is also near Newcastle and I’m currently here for his wedding. There are good things and bad things in all countries. It’s not all wine & roses in Australia. A lot of people are struggling financially and it’s only going to get worse. I’ve lived in Australia in the 60s & 70s, and visited at least once in every decade since but have no desire to live in Australia; England is my home, warts and all!
Love Scarborough. Probably my favourite place in Britain, especially the South Bay and Esplanade. Peasholm Park on the other side of the town is really nice too. Well worth a visit. The locals are some of the nicest people I've met.
Yes. Just as long as you are from the north of England - preferably Yorkshire itself; and you don't have a skin which might be slightly less white than usual; or you say 'lass' instead of girl; or you haven't mysteriously washed up on a nearby beach in a rubber dinghy - pretending to be a salt-encrusted fisherman from Filey; or you dine in over-priced teashops selling shiny jet-black trinkets as a sideline. Then - you should have a good, 'friendly' time !
How lovely and nostalgic - fewer cars, quieter roads, and a noticeable lack of the diversity which was to come along and strengthen us. Now we've gone from well-groomed people to grooming gangs.
@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx If you're British, you'd have to be living under a rock not to know that child abuse has seriously increased mainly by men of Pakistani roots. Look at the numbers of court cases and victims. Didn’t you see the Rochester report. This is a result of a foolish immigration policy. Maybe you should have a word with their victims because it's still going on. Open your eyes.
We had exactly the same colour Hillman Minx and it visited Scarborough many time and brewed up with a meths burner stove. Peasholme Park Island was illuminated in the evening with an oriental theme, we stayed late one nigh to walk around it in the dark, lovely memories.
As a child, during the entire sixties, I think we must have had a week or two at Scarborough in August/September, during the annual cricket festival at the North Marine Road ground. Sometimes, my father played there. At other times, we spent the days on the North Bay near Scalby Mills, having rented one of the "bungalows", now long gone. Happy days and thank you for the reminder!
That looks more like Filey to me. We visited there last year and Filey is still a lovely place and very clean. Which every council owns it, they should be very proud.
I was born in Mansfield in 1947 and in the early 1960's used to go to Oliver's Mount to watch the motorbike racing. Clean and safe like the majority of Britain at that time. The only good thing about being 77 is that I will not live long enough to see the final ruination of my beloved England.
Then: Clean, resplendent and worthy to visit for weeks holiday! Now: Dirty, hostile and downright rough! A weeks holiday would be bad, two weeks would be horrific!
It's always good to see yet more video-clips of a safer, better, cleaner Britain from 50-odd years ago. Isn't nostalgia wonderful ? If you're interested in North-East coastal towns as an idyllic Riveria - complete with leafy palm groves, jet-black artefacts to match the fresh arrivals from distant shores or even to indulge in good old-style fish and chips on beautiful, pristine sandy beaches - why not visit Skinningrove just along the coast ? Or the boulder clay cliffs adjoining Robin Hood's Bay where your home or holiday let may crumble into the grey North Sea ? Or the heavy industrial heartlands of yore around the Tees estuary with rusting steelworks and polluted, derelict factories on vacant land ? It's probably why people choose to live - or holiday abroad; just as they did in the late 1960s !
Shall I just relax and watch a nice nostalgic film? No, I think it would add to the film if I posted ill informed comments blaming everybody but me for any changes in the last 69 years. Yep, that will make things better.
Why is it that most European seaside resorts look clean and tidy like this today,but ours look like shit hole? Bins overflowing extortionate parking charges.
Great insight into transport around the 60s! seing people stop off on the side of the road with a Thermos flask of tea and some sandwiches before the service station began!
I remember it well. My grandad was Scarborough Town Brass Band conductor - they regularly played at Peasholme Park on the floating pontoon and at the Spa Pavillion - Happy days. I remember reading the saucy postcards in the many shops - sadly banned now by the usual suspects who drain the fun out of life.
When England was civilised...to think 60 years of invasion changed these wonderful peaceful scenes into knife wielding grooming gangs marauding our towns...I bet the people in this film could never even imagined in their worst nightmares of Britain in the 2020ies.so so sad!!!
My father who came over from Yemen in 50s (which was encouraged by the British who were in Aden at the time) prefers how Britain was back then to it now. Now he complains that there are too many immigrates, no jobs, worst health system, more crime...
civic pride, men at work, women in dresses, clean streets, family entertainment, this is the culture they don't want us to have .. how cheap fast food and cheap fast clothing has changed the UK
I think the lack of "doing your bit" has a lot to do with it because if everyone kept a decent standard in every way, modern England wouldn't look too different to the one in this film. I think this enthusiasm for all things American has a lot to answer for, It is rarely for the better, I would rather have traditional British ways any day.
the politicians and journalists tell us that 'we've never had it so good!', well we did and this video and others like it stand as testament to a once better world that they destroyed! shameful, I could weep!
My dad always wore a shirt & tie to the seaside .😀.In the 50's many peoplr from the NE honeymooned in Scarborough ,m & dad named our house after the hotel they stayed in .( It was still there in the 1990 s .Scarborough featured a lot in holidays with our own kids. In later life my m- in - law was in a nursing home here
I wondered if the gathering was some kind of religious meeting? I can remember there being a regular Christian Service on the beach at Llandudno in the 1970's. I'm not sure what the fire is about though.
Went into slow decline, like most of England’s traditional seaside, due to the availability of the package holidays to Spain etc. Why risk a fortnight on the chilly, sometimes wet, seaside when you can have guaranteed sunshine? Nice memories though, especially the train, open air theatre, water splash and Peasholm Park.
I grew up in Yorkshire and spent many happy holidays on the N York moors and visited Scarborough many times. Seeing this footage makes me realise just how lucky we were to enjoy the best of the UK when it was still British and so unspoilt. Excess immigration has ruined this once beautiful country.
England of old, no litter,no graffiti, no pot holed roads, nicely manicured gardens, smartly dressed people, I wonder what it looks like now !
A bit run down ......
Possibly like a 3rd world ghetto now.
@@Lookup2Wakeup That’s a shame it looks like it could be somewhere in the Med in the video !
We had a day out at Scarborough last year. We took the park and ride into the town centre, the locals seemed friendly enough. Actually to be honest it wasn''t all that bad. We shopped in the mall had lunch, did a bit of shopping and walked along the sea front and took notice of lots of smaller businesses doing reasonably decent trade.
We were pleasantly surprised and would go back again.
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I was born in 1965 so these sort of scenes are my earliest memories. I wish that decade never ended. Just look how calm and clean it looks. Look how slim the people are. No one is glued to their mobile phone like a zombie, no one is covered in Frankenstein tattoos, cars aren't clogging up the pavements. Ok I know there were bad things happening in the world and improvements have been made in health & safety and medicine etc but in terms of social comfort and environment the 1960s in England were far superior to the toxic country we live in now.
Spot on.
Yes. In the late 1960s when 'folk' made good old 'home movies' like these on old-fashioned cine cameras; but they still pointed their rolling cameras at scenes of interest - or 'spliced' the results to cut out anything wrong or undesirable. Like pollution on beaches washed ashore from the industrial heartlands further north along the coast; or oil discharged from vessels at sea - illegally; or raw sewage and detritus from 'storm sewers' dumping waste into the sea; overweight individuals with crown and anchor tattoos gorging on candyfloss and hot dogs - drinking 'Tizer' - or 'Doctor Pepper' - before wobbling off to 'spend a penny' in the nearest amusement arcade blaring out music - and shouting obscenities at their squawking kids. 1969 or 2024 ? You might as well toss the penny and Bingo ! - see which side is better !
you know it m8
@user-wp8vy8le3y
Nonsense!
You obviously were never in Scarborough in the 60's.
Get off CZcams and help fix it then
England was far nicer back then. Such a shame what's happened to this country.
It was crap back then I was there
why was it @@gerardmackay8909
Yes. We can all 'wallow' in nostalgia - just as one did 'back then' on lovely, pure white beaches totally free of pollutants washed ashore from the grey North Sea and the industrial heartlands of the Tees, the Tyne and the Humber in close proximity; and, of course, listening to promenade-strollers and deckchair-users telling us all how much better things were - in the days before the war - back then in the 'good old' 1930s !
@@user-wp8vy8le3y yes we can all do that but having lived in the 60s I can compare them to today. Neither are perfect but in my opinion England was a much nicer place to live back then. If that upsets you then I'm afraid you'll have to find a way to deal with it.
@@user-wp8vy8le3y bang on the money! Nostalgia filters out all of the bad bits
Watch and weep for a lost world 😞
And for a lost time!
And a lost people.....
Before the world went crazy and we could live our lives in peace.
I had very similar thoughts while watching this!
What you mean shortly after WW2 - yeah a totaly not crazy time
@@piccalillipit9211 The word 'after' makes your sarcasm null & void. WW2 ended in 1945.
@@johntate5050Have a little cry - you will feel better.
Oh look!! Its the cannon fodder from wars gone by
This is the era of my childhood. I'd like this England back please.
My childhood too. No central heating, black and white tv with 3 channels, everything shut on Sunday, women paid less than men for the same job, childhood cancers which are now 90% curable then 100% fatal, sexism rife, homosexuality illegal, and worst of all the food was DIRE! I will stick with 2024 ta.
@@gerardmackay8909And everything wasn't so "woke", as to what they are now. Naaaa, give me the 1960s and 70s anytime. No such thing as zombie knives, video games back then. Children used to go out of the house all day playing kids games or riding their bikes without the fear of getting shot or stabbed.
@@nigelbevan8449 wasn’t so hot being a child playing out in 1960s Manchester if you happened to cross the path of that delightful couple, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. On top of that child murders from the 60s onwards has been a steady figure (real term drop given the increased population). Now as then 95% of murdered children are killed by someone well known to them.
@@gerardmackay8909As they are today, relating to child murders or sexual abuse. And relating to the food back then, you had to cook it back then in an oven, unlike today's garbage where, all you have to do is bung it in a microwave..... Mmmmm yummy yummy.
@@gerardmackay8909And I'm coming to the end of my life, so will I miss 2024? Yeah, like toothache.
How fantastic. I was born in 1956 and remember these times so well. People think we have 'evolved' and the world is a better place! Not all change is for the better. When the UK and people had some standards, local authorities weren't bankrupt and there was pride in how places and people looked. Scarborough was our nearest place on the coast. I wish the world was still like this. Great post. Thank you.
Yes, I remember the polio and tb.
And look how we are importing it back in to the country, soon be just like the good old days wont it.@@Michael43713
@@Michael43713 The level of delusion in the comments on videos like this one is remarkable.
@@Michael43713 Yes, and look it's being reimported after we had got rid of it, great eh....
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx
Serial troll alert folks!
This one is incredibly pernicious.
Why so bitter, so full of malice troll?
The first thing that struck me was how clean and well maintained everything looks!
This film is my childhood, born in 1948, day trips to Yorkshire's coastal towns, only A class roads, stop off half way for a brew. No casual clothing allowed, no jeans and females in Sunday best. Easy parking, and we even had a fold up picnic table and chairs and an early Camping Gaz stove to boil hot water for a proper brew to go with the picnic. Such simpler days, the memories of the family car from those times. Cheers DougT
Yes can yo u remember when people used to just pull in off the road and get out the picnic seats and a flask for a cuppa ha happy days😂
Life was better then.
We went to Scarborough when l was ten (1963). What a great place it was too.
I could weep thinking about the country our governments of all persuasions have helped to lose. I was born in 1964 and these scenes are familiar. Beautiful.
my mums last holliday in 1968 died soon after of cancer,i was only 6 but remember her in a wheel chair and wanting to see everything.i love scarboroough but fined it very upsetting when i see it in the old cinnys.thanks for posting chris.
Jeez that's so sad. You were only 6. Hope you fared well. God bless you, and God bless your dear mum.
lost one my sisters in a plane crash on the back off hoonymoon the same year as my mum died so it was a very bad time for my sisters and father.i went off the rails and into the bike and rock world i guess you could say it affected me.thank you for your nice post.@@Occident.
It must have a very sad and confusing time for you and your family.
i was only 6 and didnt realise what was happening but it catches up with youlater in life.@@laurencetitusoates6328
Bless you mate, you went through a tough time
My mother's favourite holiday resort as a girl, she has passed now along with most of the people on here. These landmark features would have been so evocative to her.
This is wonderful, born in 1966 and as a child every summer holiday was spent in Scarborough, the simplest times and the best times.
Before all the Alan’s snack bar brigade invaded
100%. This country now is a nightmare in some areas.
And enriched us with their warm, sunny , and caring nature, what a benefit they are to us.......
@@Travis_22 Mainly in London where the rich have made it impossible for the working class to live.
@@laurencetitusoates6328 You are referring to the ruling class?
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx That's definitely not what I was alluding to. Try again.
Great to see this old footage.
When Britain belonged to the British
Oh for goodness sake. What sort of comment is that? It still does
You are right mate. Britain is a shithole now
@@davidforbes2795Not for much longer.
@@davidforbes2795 have you been to London lately
I was there a couple of weeks ago. Why do you ask?
Ahhh when people took a picnic parked by the beautiful parks and well arranged gardens.
Special times.
Thank you for posting 🙏
Scarborough was such a great place back then. We visited & holidayed there often & I loved it.
My home town in its glory days.. I remember these days well as a young boy, So glad I experienced these wonderful times, Thanks for posting.
Thank you for bringing back a few brief moments from my happy childhood, not just a different country back then, almost another world
A much, much better world too.
Civic pride, well-manicured parks, corporation works departments, no outsourcing, proper counties, no parking charges, properly maintained roads, nice clothes, British cars ...
Can I go back there please?
Yes. If you're a friend of William Hartnell or Jon Pertwee - and you own one of those 'lovely' dark blue telephone boxes with a flashing blue light on the top. And . . . people used to complain even then about the cr*ppy electronic music at the start - and that other 'Timelords' had pinched the kettle or the sink plunger to make the nasty 'alien' invaders look realistic - or that those interlopers from across the seas were scaring all the kids as they waded ashore. Some things never change !
You're demanding socialism and democracy! You're a traitor/lunatic/utopianist (delete as applicable).
Bring it all back please 😊😊😊😊
We need a Time Machine!
Along with polio, TB, high cancer rates, homophobia, racism, rape in marriage...?
Thank you for this: the Scarborough and country of my childhood. Beautiful!
This is so lovely. I want this to be my country. Sadly born too late to remember these beautiful days.
I don't think you would have been very happy with 1960s technology; it was a world away from what we have today.
This is how I remember things as a little kid . All British cars ,everything clean and tidy ,no litter , everyone smart . Just totally safe . No county line gangs , no stabbings every other day on the news . I’m afraid we have to look in the mirror tandoori ask ourselves why , why did we let it all be destroyed. We all voted for the destruction, we all continued to vote for the politicians who facilitated the destruction and unfortunately many seem intent on continuing to do so . God help us all indigenous British, from Britain / England of old to a multicultural shit hole in 50 years .
You were broke still from WWII [the last country to end food rationing in 1954] & you needed dirt cheap labour to make crappy cars, wipe bottoms in the new NHS, drive the buses & trains, repair roads, clear bomb sites etc. Your type [you were too young, but still your type] didn't care who was brought in from the colonies & Ireland - all your type knew was you were too good to do the labour. Now you are an old bugger & you're doing what you've always done i.e. blame everyone else. Quite pathetic - go down the Chinese takeaway in the MG Midget, if it's yours, & get yourself dim sum for a dim son.
@@nightjarflyingquite the polemcist, aren't we?
@@nightjarflyingLooks like you forgot to take your meds
Did mummy treat you badly when you were little........@@nightjarflying
Yes. And guess what - there's always been a history of so-called 'multiculturalism' in places in the North of England. In Yorkshire, too - places like Bradford - with its high proportion of workers employed in the mills and textile factories. And in Lancashire, too. Or consider the fact that Leeds, too, has long been associated with those of Jewish origin - and many of them have 'pure' white skins. Or even take into account the fact that England/ Britain/UK joined the EEC/EU in 1973 in order to replace those markets lost to the UK with the end of Imperialism in the 1950s and 1960s - under former British Prime Ministers - like Harold Macmillan. Lady Thatcher herself voted 'Yes' in the 1975 Referendum on continued membership of the EEC/EU so we had to cosy up to all those garlic and wine quaffing French and Italians - and the Germans, too, who also lost the War in 1945 - and the World Cup in 1966; shortly before this footage was filmed. I think we in the UK have long been xenophobic and suspicious of 'outsiders'- and it's also why a monkey was hanged on the beach in not-too-distant Hartlepool - in the days of sail - in the mistaken belief that it was a foreigner !
And cars that you could repair yourself.
And frequently had to.......
@@laurencetitusoates6328 True but it didn't cost a fortune to do it.
And more reliable as they weren’t filled with electronics and computers.
i lived above peasholm park at number 1 chatsworth gardens in 1960 and carried my pond yacht down the hill to climb over the fence down into the glen. brilliant. peasholm belonged to me in those days in the winter i was the only one there. 73 now and living in a country i dont recognise
we used to go on day trips to scarborough in the 60's and 70's many times as we lived in Leeds, all the family in the back of a transit, sat on dad's toolboxes or whatever we had, and i remember one day, must have been about 1968 my little bro disappeared when we were on the packed beach. when we couldnt find him my dad said someone would take him to the lost kids tent eventually, no panic from either mum or dad, and sure enough he turned up about half an hour or so later (if i remember rightly). different times and it ain't just nostalgia when looking back i can say everything was better. i spent my first 12 years of holidays just down the road at reighton gap nr filey, 7 of us in a tiny caravan, thanks for this vid, happy memories.
Not quite the same without the whirling sound of the projector. Takes me back to when I was in my twenties and could walk up the steep footpaths.
Excellent quality!
3:00 looks like Peasholm Park where they put on battles using amazing large model ships.
Is that where the 'mere' was?
@@embers-cotswold-walks No the Mere is out of town in the A64. Its not for tourists now, its a just a bird sanctuary and a few benches. No ice creams or crazy golf.
Used to holiday in Whitby in the late 60's and early 70's. Arrived by coach at Scarborough and then caught the United bus over the moors to Whitby. Dad put the luggage in a left luggage facility and we used to spend a couple of hours in Scarborough inbetween.
Redolent of annual summer holidays throughout the 60's. The journey on the SUT coach from Sheffield, the halfway house stop at the Royal Oak near Howden, the "digs" at Fieldside, sailing a pond yacht in Peasholm Park, the afternoon naval battle on the boating lake, the night time illuminated tree walk on the island in the boating lake, playing on the North Bay beach making sand castles and sand pies, the open air swimming pool, the stroll along the front on South Bay past all the arcades each with their own Bingo caller, the ice cream with a blob of yellow sorbet on from Jaconelli's or Pacitto's, a Knickerbocker Glory or a Banana Split in the Harbour Bar, the "Jumping Jiminies" on the South Bay beach, the cliff lifts taking you from harbour level up to the town level, the one-arm bandits that you fed with one (old) penny, the feeling of horror when your parents decided to walk back from the South to North Bay by Marine Drive and Royal Albert Drive when you wanted to get on one of those cream and red centre entry single decker "Sea Front Service" buses terminating at the Corner Cafe - well, your legs weren't as long as Mum and Dad's. And all too soon it was Saturday lunchtime and you were back on the coach in the coach station, about to start the journey back to Sheffield - with the stop off en route at the Royal Oak of course. What I wouldn't give to be back there in the 60's again...
Born in 1951 , this is Scarborough of my childhood , Filey and Primrose Valley my holidays . Late 60s and early 70s was my Mod days , Scene 1 a great club on Aberdeen Walk , happy days
a lost world indeed,we went here every summer in the 70s, brings back memories of holidays with my mum and dad ,really great times , went on the water chute and the wee train to scalby mills that are in the video. also jimmy corrigans funfair . miss these days
Id guess this is around 1968? I first went to Scarborough in July 1970. Aged 10. With my parents and brother and Sister. Remember it well. I've must been another 20 times since i returned in 1995 with my own family. Now they take there children too. We love Scarborough.
I remember as a kid going to Scarborough for a short holiday with my mum and dad. Went to see Max Jaffa and his orchestra. That was about 1971 I think. Only lives 70 miles away but in those days there was no such thing as a package holiday (at least for us) so Scarborough was like the other side of the world....despite only living 70 miles away. I do think though that we do tend to look at the past with rosy specs though. Yes we have lost a lot of the good things, but shed a lot of bad stuff as well. Who remembers as a kid ice on the inside of your bedroom window (when we had winters). No central heating and the only way you got hot water when mum or dad spent half an hour getting a coal fire started and then opening the heater plate at the back of the fire place to heat the hot water for a wash in the sink in a freezing cold bathroom. Of subject a little I suppose but yes I wish I could go back in time for one day.
Great video, thank you. 👍👍👍
Thank you for bringing back memories of a happier and more settled time - one much more filled with placidity and optimism than ours.
My family seaside trips were somewhat North of this - Saltburn, Redcar, Seaton Carew (very very occasionally Whitby) but much of a muchness. Sweets, candy floss, fish and chips and penny arcades - with the grown-ups indulging themselves with not a few pints and (for the ladies) port-and-lemons and Babychams.
I experienced the same places in the 60s and 70s and they look much better these days.
These's were the best days of Britain no doubt, now the place is diverse its like a box of Thornton when you walk through the place.
I don't think what you see on our streets can be compared on anything as nice as a box of chocolates.......
@@laurencetitusoates6328 Please be specific.
Anyone who remembers this, is lucky,, we were blessed with the best of times, I'm 68 and this brings back so many happy memories,, the standards of today's society have taken a massive leap back since then,, ☹️,,
I wouldn't want to be 10 years old now,, 😕
A quality traditional holiday back in the day, first went late sixties aged ten, we took the touring caravan , a new sprite major for the week, remember having a C16 Scalextric Ferrari P4 slot car, still got it.
Thanks for the upload.
Thanks for your posting it’s brought back very happy memories of safer and happy time’s.
Safer? Hardly. If you were Black, Irish or LGBTQ+, for example, those were hardly safer times here in Britain. Women could be raped by their husbands. You really think it was better?
Lovely to see but depressing as well for what we have lost.
A very different and sadly much nicer time and Britain.
Are you a Hoover fan by any chance?
I am Sir !
Thank you for the video. Simpler and easier times. All the best from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
My son and his family live in East maitland near Newcastle. Australia is a beautiful country. The United Kingdom is unreconiseable now from the good old days. Ruined by multiculturalism.
@@albertatlock unfortunately, I have to agree with you. I lived in London from 1978 to 1981 and thoroughly enjoyed it. In October 2022 my wife and I visited London for a week, I found that the place had completely changed! And I don’t mean the buildings. I hope that the stupid politicians can sort out their mess. Have a good day.
@@albertatlockMy Son lives in Mayfield which is also near Newcastle and I’m currently here for his wedding. There are good things and bad things in all countries. It’s not all wine & roses in Australia. A lot of people are struggling financially and it’s only going to get worse. I’ve lived in Australia in the 60s & 70s, and visited at least once in every decade since but have no desire to live in Australia; England is my home, warts and all!
Beautiful and sad at the same time.How our government and politicians have destroyed our country.Its completely unrecognisable now.
It looks exactly the same. Beautiful Scarborough.
Looks like 1968/69 to me , the good times .
Love Scarborough. Probably my favourite place in Britain, especially the South Bay and Esplanade. Peasholm Park on the other side of the town is really nice too. Well worth a visit. The locals are some of the nicest people I've met.
Yes. Just as long as you are from the north of England - preferably Yorkshire itself; and you don't have a skin which might be slightly less white than usual; or you say 'lass' instead of girl; or you haven't mysteriously washed up on a nearby beach in a rubber dinghy - pretending to be a salt-encrusted fisherman from Filey; or you dine in over-priced teashops selling shiny jet-black trinkets as a sideline.
Then - you should have a
good, 'friendly' time !
@@user-wp8vy8le3y I should be ok then.
Peasholm Park ain’t like that anymore believe me
@@Me-ll4ig It didn't look a whole lot different to me when I was there in August last year. It's still a really nice park imo.
Just looks like a lovely wee advert for your hols 💙❤️
Our once beautiful country, now gone forever.
Thanks for uploading. Great footage. Different world back then.
People had manners back then ,this is classy ❤
Its spooky, i remember a trip to flamingo land via Scarborough in the 60s,in my uncles hillman minx,same colour as the one featured at start 😊😊
I only visited Scarborough once. It was in the late fifties with my parents. I remember it as a very pleasant town.
Used to be able to park the car and enjoy a relaxing day.
Not anymore.
Same as Morecambe , parking charges and restrictions everywhere.
Yes how very dare you have a means of transport.......
How lovely and nostalgic - fewer cars, quieter roads, and a noticeable lack of the diversity which was to come along and strengthen us. Now we've gone from well-groomed people to grooming gangs.
Which if you say anything about you are called a fascist and the threatened with prosecution and gaol.
@@laurencetitusoates6328 How true.
@@laurencetitusoates6328 Strangely, you and the OP wrote it and no-one has threatened you with anything.
Are you claiming that child abuse has increased? Perhaps you might have a word with the myriad victims of the Catholic church.
@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx If you're British, you'd have to be living under a rock not to know that child abuse has seriously increased mainly by men of Pakistani roots. Look at the numbers of court cases and victims. Didn’t you see the Rochester report. This is a result of a foolish immigration policy. Maybe you should have a word with their victims because it's still going on. Open your eyes.
We had exactly the same colour Hillman Minx and it visited Scarborough many time and brewed up with a meths burner stove. Peasholme Park Island was illuminated in the evening with an oriental theme, we stayed late one nigh to walk around it in the dark, lovely memories.
Nice to see the old traditions, picnics, feeding the birds, the mock battle on the boating lake, burning a witch on the beach....
As a child, during the entire sixties, I think we must have had a week or two at Scarborough in August/September, during the annual cricket festival at the North Marine Road ground. Sometimes, my father played there. At other times, we spent the days on the North Bay near Scalby Mills, having rented one of the "bungalows", now long gone. Happy days and thank you for the reminder!
That looks more like Filey to me. We visited there last year and Filey is still a lovely place and very clean. Which every council owns it, they should be very proud.
The home of Olivers Mount and some seriously good motorcycle racing!😀👍👍👍👍👍
Before we all became the prisoners of economic growth. Materially wealthier but morally and spiritually impoverished.
I was born in Mansfield in 1947 and in the early 1960's used to go to Oliver's Mount to watch the motorbike racing. Clean and safe like the majority of Britain at that time. The only good thing about being 77 is that I will not live long enough to see the final ruination of my beloved England.
I understand completely how you feel 😢😢😢
After 1965. Morris oxford C reg in car park.
Well spotted.
Then: Clean, resplendent and worthy to visit for weeks holiday! Now: Dirty, hostile and downright rough! A weeks holiday would be bad, two weeks would be horrific!
It's always good to see yet more video-clips of a safer, better, cleaner Britain from 50-odd years ago. Isn't nostalgia wonderful ?
If you're interested in North-East coastal towns as an idyllic Riveria - complete with leafy palm groves, jet-black artefacts to match the fresh arrivals from distant shores or even to indulge in good old-style fish and chips on beautiful, pristine sandy beaches - why not visit Skinningrove just along the coast ? Or the boulder clay cliffs adjoining Robin Hood's Bay where your home or holiday let may
crumble into the grey North Sea ? Or the heavy industrial heartlands of yore around the Tees estuary with rusting steelworks and polluted, derelict factories on vacant land ? It's probably why people choose to live - or holiday abroad; just as they did in the late 1960s !
And yes . . . I lived in the area in the late 1960s and early 1970s; some things may never change !
Nice colour and spot on exposures ,nice record !
Shall I just relax and watch a nice nostalgic film? No, I think it would add to the film if I posted ill informed comments blaming everybody but me for any changes in the last 69 years. Yep, that will make things better.
My dad always said the 60’s was his favourite decade. Watching film like this, you can see why
Sure, they had their problems but it just looks nicer
Great shots of a resort I still love. Isn't super 8 wonderful!
It really is!
Why is it that most European seaside resorts look clean and tidy like this today,but ours look like shit hole? Bins overflowing extortionate parking charges.
Great insight into transport around the 60s! seing people stop off on the side of the road with a Thermos flask of tea and some sandwiches before the service station began!
I remember it well. My grandad was Scarborough
Town Brass Band conductor - they regularly played at Peasholme Park on the floating pontoon and at the Spa Pavillion - Happy days.
I remember reading the saucy postcards in the many shops - sadly banned now by the usual suspects who drain the fun out of life.
If I could get into a Time Machine , it would be to go back into the 60’s , never again will there be a better Decade 🥲
You know what we need to make this a perfect brittish scene ? Islamists ! Said nobody ever !
When England was civilised...to think 60 years of invasion changed these wonderful peaceful scenes into knife wielding grooming gangs marauding our towns...I bet the people in this film could never even imagined in their worst nightmares of Britain in the 2020ies.so so sad!!!
My father who came over from Yemen in 50s (which was encouraged by the British who were in Aden at the time) prefers how Britain was back then to it now. Now he complains that there are too many immigrates, no jobs, worst health system, more crime...
Oh the irony.
The plate on that hillman minx would be worth a fortune today
I had a quick look on the DVLA site and it's not listed. Cornish registration plate.
@ukechris it was probably sent to the scrap yard in the sky with the car unfortunately
That hillman is probably a good idea compared to the hassle we're having with BMW N type engine timing chains, as for ford wet belts wot next
When people were proud of where they lived.❤
1:04 Ah the good old days, when, if the sun didn’t shine we lit a bonfire on the beach and tanned our backs against it 🤔😮🤣🤣🤣🤣🇬🇧
What a fantastic video filmed in a time when Britain was great.
civic pride, men at work, women in dresses, clean streets, family entertainment, this is the culture they don't want us to have .. how cheap fast food and cheap fast clothing has changed the UK
I think the lack of "doing your bit" has a lot to do with it because if everyone kept a decent standard in every way, modern England wouldn't look too different to the one in this film. I think this enthusiasm for all things American has a lot to answer for, It is rarely for the better, I would rather have traditional British ways any day.
Wonderful video. I still like Scarborough but nowhere is the same these days in our angry impatient society.
Lack of immmmmmmmmmmmmants
the politicians and journalists tell us that 'we've never had it so good!', well we did and this video and others like it stand as testament to a once better world that they destroyed! shameful, I could weep!
A beautiful English seaside town , before the likes of politicians like Tony Fu💩king blair Enriched it with lots of forgieners and diversity.
Ah bless your Reform rabble will make it all better for you
@@gerardmackay8909 Someone needs to !
@@AJ-qn6gd there are a fair few problems which need addressing but the Reform Party doesn’t have the answer to any of them.
And your answer is of course lots more of the same I suppose ! @@gerardmackay8909
Your comment would have more validity if you could spell foreigners correctly.
I wonder what these people would have done differently if they could have seen the way the UK would be today.
How long have you got.......
Enforce tough immigration laws.
My dad always wore a shirt & tie to the seaside .😀.In the 50's many peoplr from the NE honeymooned in Scarborough ,m & dad named our house after the hotel they stayed in .( It was still there in the 1990 s .Scarborough featured a lot in holidays with our own kids. In later life my m- in - law was in a nursing home here
Thanks for posting. I'm from Bridlington. I'm curious what the gathering on the beach was?
I wondered if the gathering was some kind of religious meeting? I can remember there being a regular Christian Service on the beach at Llandudno in the 1970's.
I'm not sure what the fire is about though.
Ah yes the local Wicker Man festival. I'd hoped that would be included. You didn't disappoint. 0:53
Days appeared more brighter back then.
When Britain had a future
Went into slow decline, like most of England’s traditional seaside, due to the availability of the package holidays to Spain etc. Why risk a fortnight on the chilly, sometimes wet, seaside when you can have guaranteed sunshine? Nice memories though, especially the train, open air theatre, water splash and Peasholm Park.
A country proud of itself
I grew up in Yorkshire and spent many happy holidays on the N York moors and visited Scarborough many times. Seeing this footage makes me realise just how lucky we were to enjoy the best of the UK when it was still British and so unspoilt. Excess immigration has ruined this once beautiful country.
I remember being there with my family as a young kid and seeing them burn a stack of old slot machines on the beach... I wonder if that was the one!?
It’s like watching an episode of, “Look at Life……”
Or 'Carry On Camping' !
I remember the battleships at peasholm park and the fish and chips.